We need to completely reimagine education. Instead of learning to memorize facts and figures, students need to “learn how to learn” and how to solve problems they should be allowed to learn independently. Changes are needed at every level. We have to infuse things like entrepreneurship into the curriculum because with the disruption that’s going on, many people are going to have create their own jobs.
We may end up in a world in which people are more likely to be nomadic employees rather than ones to have a secure job lasting for a lifetime. We need to completely reframe the system of education based on where the world is going, instead of continuing to do the same thing over and over again.With the pace of change accelerating in the 21stcentury, a key requirement to thrive is lifelong learning and the ability to acquire new skills quickly. How can “learning to learn” and the ability to be continually reinventing oneself needs to be fostered in children from a young age.
It starts with a recognition amongst all educators that the world is changing. To prepare people for the future, you need to design an education system that is forward-looking and not backward-looking.
In today’s world of artificial intelligence, robotics and COVID – 19 we have to prepare people for uncertainty and promote agility and adaptability. It means encouraging flexibility rather than specialization. It requires training and retraining teachers as well as redesigning education systems.
We need to completely reimagine education. Instead of learning to memorize facts and figures, students need to “learn how to learn” and how to solve problems. And they should be allowed to learn independently. Changes are needed at every level. We have to inculcate elements like entrepreneurship into the curriculum because with the disruption that’s going on, many people are going to have to create their own jobs.
We need to completely reframe the system of education based on where the world is going, instead of continuing to do the same thing over and over again.
Education used to be a one-shot game, now it has to be a lifelong game. You don’t just get educated once. We need to go in-between learning and work. You have to bring professionals into the classroom to teach. Children have to work on projects for real organizations from the beginning, and you have to go out into the environment, into communities. Students have to understand the real problems that people are facing so you can shape your learning around those problems rather than just look at a textbook.
Today most people end up in careers that have nothing to do with what they studied in college or university.
The world’s big problems will not be solved by looking at only one discipline. We believe is that instead of giving people a menu of academic disciplines, we should give them a menu of problems and challenges that the world is facing, and then have them pick one of them and curate their learning experience around solving those problems. The end goal is to impart methods of learning rather than pure content. We need to teach children or students to solve problems rather than memorize facts and figures.
NIRAYA 